Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
Common people have an appetite for food; uncommon people have an appetite for service.
-J. R. D. Tata
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
-Vladimir Nabokov
Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
-Pope John Paul II